As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.
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Other Quotes by "Virginia Woolf"

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
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anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
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I am rooted, but I flow.
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